Hi everyone,
The newer Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol S series S49, S61 and S88 MK3 keyboards (with current firmware) can have templates with up to 16 pages (each with 8 buttons and 8 knobs). Since it was somewhat tedious to create and map 128 buttons and 128 knobs, I’m sharing my work here.
16 page starter templates for the MK3 (.kmt files) plus matching Cubase/Nuendo MIDI Remote configuration (.midiremote file):
NI-KK-MK3-Cubase-Nuendo-Templates.zip (32.0 KB)
The zip file contains:
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A Cubase/Nuendo MIDI Remote configuration script (.midiremote), that has 16 hardware pages, each with 8 buttons and 8 knobs. The buttons are using MIDI channel 15, CC0 to CC 127 and the knobs are using MIDI channel 16, CC0 to CC 127.
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2 (.kmt) template files (one for Cubase, the other for Nuendo) that can be imported into the Komplete Kontrol MK3 keyboard with current firmware. The templates have 16 pages each with the buttons and knobs assigned to match the MIDI Remote configuration script.
- Please note, that you’ll need to review and possibly change the settings for keyzones, pedals, pitch-bend and mod wheels to your own liking after loading the template(s) into the keyboard. To make that easier, I’ve also created a helper program, that can copy those settings from another MK3 template file: modifying-komplete-kontrol-s-mk3-templates/
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The templates have 16 pages, since it’s much easier to delete pages than to create them. So anyone wishing to work with fewer than 16 pages, just delete them after importing.
NOTE:
These templates are just starting points (saving maybe a couple of hours), because one still needs to do the mapping from the MIDI Remote to individual VST Instrument tracks. But that mapping is very much driven by individual work flow preferences and of course which instruments are being mapped.
I’ve also created an accompanying
step by step guide how to use a MK3 keyboard to control Instrument plugins in Cubase